11 March check-in

[larryhammer]

Project 2: Discontinued old edition, made final fixes, uploaded all files to all distribution channels, clicked "publish" everywhere, sat back to wait. When KDP complained that I typoed my title on the book cover, tore my hair out trying to find any difference between the file and the metadata, recreated the files without a change and reuploaded. Sat back to wait some more.

Project 4: Bits of research and reading, here and there, adding more potential selections in the project file and identifying another half-dozen books to ransack for material.

Plus installed a new window shade in the kitchen and planted tomatoes.

*whew*

Goals for today:

Project 2: If the print book goes live, send out a couple review copies and order some stock for myself. Once all versions go live, post in my DW and elsewhere. Celebrate. Or not, if it's still not live.

Project 3, which I haven't described yet: This is submitting a themed poetry collection (a poem a day for a year) to the next publisher, a project that last got rejected *checks dates* oh jeez, over a year ago. The balls, they are dropped sometimes. I have the proposal files, but I need to update the cover letter and lob it over another transom. Tasks TBD: research whether any similar books have been published since I last checked, and what similar books the publisher has in their back catalog (I know of one); address known similar books (compare/differentiate) in the proposal; find the right editor to submit to and address the proposal to them; proofread the whole thing; toss it at 'em; breathe a deep sigh of relief. For today, the goal is research for similar books.

---L.

Weekend Update

[kendiefox]

Diamonds are forever cut! I finished the fabric I had in strips, looked at what I had previously cut, did a heck of a lot of math, and decided that was enough colors. It's enough diamonds certainly. Now I need to figure out how to evenly cut two 72 inch strips (2.5 inches wide). And the bottom borders are slightly shorter, but if I can do the big ones I can do the smaller ones, right?

I also got my new laptop kinda sorta mostly set up ish. I definitely have words on the page!

To Do: Trim the selvedge off of the background fabric and work on the geometry of cutting it.

Let's go team! We can do it!

March 11th - Not much, but something

[lauand]

Ha, ha, omg, I'M STALLING OR WHAT. I have this problem that, when I have to do something and I'm sort of scared of not being able to meet my own exacting standards I just don't do it. Bad practice, very bad practice. But my subconscious disguises it as reasonable excuses. Only, I know better at this point. Sooo:

( Today )

 

And that's it for today. I expect to do better tomorro. I also wanted to take one picture, but my wonderful idea went to shit when the snow that had fallen in the early morning melted by noon and then the fucking wind started howling. Wind can get pretty crazy around here. Not as much as in the midwest of the USA or the Caribbean, but still, sometimes you have to fetch your trash bins from the neighbour's yard.

Fic: Diverting Attention (Good Omens)

[daegaer]

Fandom: Good Omens
Format: Drabble
Warnings: none
Notes: 100 words. Crowley quotes Genesis 8:21, with God's pessimistic assessment of human nature, while Aziraphale quotes "The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Lord Byron. The Assyrian empire was indeed, er, energetic in its treatment of rebellious peoples.


( Diverting Attention )